Last Friday (26 February 2010), myself and Ed Lucas from White October took a trip down the M40 to the PHP UK Conference 2010, hosted at the Business Design Centre in London. The purpose of the trip was three-fold – firstly to attend some great talks, secondly to socialise and meet other members of the [...]
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Hudson and Symfony continuous integration
February 5, 2010 – 4:02 pm
We’ve been experimenting this week with using Hudson as our continuous integration server for our latest Symfony project. Previous experiences with CruiseControl via phpUnderControl and the symfonyUnderControl plugin were OK-ish but we’d occasionally experience CruiseControl dying on us with no warning apart from the lack of emails after checking our code in.
So we decided it [...]
Don’t be afraid to NOT use the ORM…
October 16, 2009 – 4:06 pm
I’ve been racking my brains the past couple of days with a Doctrine issue within a Symfony project. I was constructing a bank statement-esque page, which iterated over a “StatementEntry” table and displayed the results. Entries could either be of model Type A or model Type B, with the relevant model ID stored [...]